Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (died 1984)

Pina Menichelli

Italian actress (1890–1984)

Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli, known professionally as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine…